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THE WEATHER Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Generally fair today and tomorrows not much change in temperature. VOL. X. NO. 279. RICH DOCTOR FOILS MOVE TO POT HIM IN ASYLUM Committed in Alabama, Twice Arrested Here, Young Physi cian Still Roams Atlanta. OFFICER FORCED TO ASK i REQUISITION FOR CHARGE X Mayson Foshee Once Was One of Leading Medical Practi tioners in Brewton. Tn spite of the fact that he has been committed to tjje Alabama state asylum for the Insane and though the Atlanta police have twice arrested him for lu nacy, Dr. Mayson Foshee, a wealthy young physician of Brewton, Ala., suc cessfully has defied the efforts of the authorities to Incarcerate him and he Is at liberty in Atlanta today. Foshee, who i» 36 years old and who until recently had one of the largest medical practices in Alabama, fled Brewton several days ago just after he had been tried'for lunacy and com mitted to the asylum. He is said to be a drug user and when he is not dazed by the narcotic labors under the delu sion that his family Is trying to cheat him of his fortune, which amounts to many thousand dollars. ' Yesterday the chief of police of Brewton followed Dr. Foshee to Atlan ta, and, after a long search, found him in apartments at the Hilburn hotel. The Brewton chief callad upon the local police for aid.- Foshee was arrested, despite his protests, and locked up. Unable to Take Him Without Requisition. But when ths Alabama official took him from the cell to start on the jour ney back to Alabama Foshee refused to leave. He pointed out that he had been arrested upon a commitment that had been made out in another state and was not valid in Georgia. He showed the Brewton officer had no requisition upon which to take him to Alabama, and, despite the drugs, he pleaded his case so well that the Atlanta authori ties had no recourse but to discharge him. Foshee went back to his hotel, while the discomfited chief of the Brewton police hurried back to get a requisition , from the governor of Alabama. Date last night the police received a telephone call from Dr. William D. Ro per, a druggist, saying that a man who was wanted by the authorities could be found at the.corner of Wall and Pryor streets. He gave no name and Detec tives Starnes and Campbell were aston ished when they arrived at the corner to find that their new- prisoner was Foshee, whom before they had helped arrest. Nevertheless, they took him to police headquarters, where he again protested against detention and again was discharged. Dr. Foshee declares that he will fight extradition to Alabama. He says he is going to stay in Atlanta, despite the ef forts of his “enemies” to put him “in a mad house and get the fortune for themselves.” He probably will remain at liberty here until the Brewton chief of police , an return with the requisition papers. MAJOR M. E. LAIRD OF N. G. G. IS GIVEN MILITARY FUNERAL Impressive military services marked the burial of Major Mack E Laird, of the ordinance department. National ‘ Guard of Georgia, today at Westview cemetery. Mr. Laird died at his home, so:: Peachtree street, yesterday. Military officers detailed from the First battalion of the Fifth Infantry. Troop L, and the Second squad of cav commanded by Majo r J. O. Sea mans. as military escort, today. The Seventeenth Fulled States infantry band lead the procession. The services were conducted by Rev. ,1 tv. Millard at the First Baptist church at fo:80 o'clock, after which the procession proceeded to Westview, where the soldiers took charge of the body and conducted military burial. KULICK, IN FORD, BEATS 1 TIME OF HEARNS’ BENZ i i ALGONQUIN. ILL., ?June 21.—Three tintes today Frank Kulick, of Detroit, smashed the hill climbing record on ’ the Algonquin hill. Driving a special Ford, he was . raked in I*3-5. 15 2-5 and 15 4-5 seconds in three different, events. »h>ih beats the record of 16 2-5 made !a..i rear by Eddie Hearns In the 120- | hor-enower Benz. Th, hill •« 1.00(1 fc°t long and 26 ,pm , Iti at its steepest portion The ,ai given a flying start. The Atlanta Georgian EXTRA Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results ' Felton Won't Answer Massee for the Sake Os Family Friendship * ——— - Judge's Mother Taught Macon, Rival His Sunday School Lessons Years Ago. MACON, GA.. .Tune 21. —Because his I mother taught W. J. Massee, Sunday i school lessons long years ago, Judge j William H. Felton, president of the | Macon Railway and Light Company, I will not reply to the latter’s charge that | he accepted a big,fee from a corpora - ' tion while on the bench of the superior j court of the Macon circuit. “His family and my family have been I intimate for three generations, and life I is too short to destroy friendships built I up for generations about matters that j can be measured in dollars and cents. • Mr. Massee was a member of my moth- l er's Sunday school class in Marshall- ' vUe," Felton. The judge does deny, however, the ! charge made by Mr. Massee that when , the Macon Water Company was sold to ‘ the city last year he received a larger price for hie stock than minority stock- i holders, “by reason of being on the in- I side.” The mayor and council of Macon unanimously deny the charge made by ; Mr. Massee that they concerted with ; him last December In signing an illegal | five-year contract for lights from the i Macon Railway and Light Company, so I as to bluff the Georgia Power Company ! ' from coming to Macon. RACES TO KEEP HER SICK MOTHER FROM NEWS OF TRAGEDY To prevent her sick mother. Mrs. E. H. West, from learning the details of a family tragedy in which Charles E. West 1b being held in New Orleans sot , the killing of George Borden. Mrs. B. .1. Sells, 215 Courtland street, is hastening , to her mother’s bedside In Magee. Ark. When young West shot and killed his brother-in-law. Borden, In New Or leans two days ago his mother lay at the point of death. Mrs. Selle decided that news of the killing must be kept from her if she was to live. So the race with the report, which will travel slowly in the Arkansas backwoods, be gan today. Shortly after the shooting West told the authorities in New Orleans that he killed Borden in self-defense while the latter was advancing on him with a knife. Borden, he said, had been drink ing heavily and had abused his sister, | and Borden, in a dying statement to the New Orleans police, asserted- that West shot without cause. RESCUER OF TITANIC SURVIVORS THANKED BY BRITISH OFFICIALS- LONDON, Jtine 21.—The thanks of the British government were today ten dered to Captain Rostron of the liner Carpathia. who saved the Titanic sur vivors, when the Board of Trade in quiry into the Titanic disaster was re sumed. Attorney General Sir Rufus Isaacs, acting in his official capacity, congrat ulated Captain Rostron, and other speeches were made by Lord Mersey and Sir. Robert Finlay, chief of the White Star counsel. There was a big demonstration when Captain Rostron appeared. CANDIDATES MUST ENTER BY JUNE 29 AUGUSTA. GA.. .Tune 21.—The date set for the final announcemem of can didates for county offices has been fixed as June 29 by a sub-committee of the county executive committee. There are eight candidates for the legisla ture. two for clerk of superior court and one each for ordinary, sheriff, tax col® lector and t-ax receiver. R. O. Lombard and A. J. Twiggs are candidates for country corfimissloners to succeed F. B. Pope and L. A. Beckmans. Daniel Kerr and T. W. Pilcher are candidates for clerk of court, as W. D. Walker, the incumbent, is not seeking re-elec tion. Sheriff John W. Clark has no op position. Ordinary A. R. Walton, Tax Collector C. S. Boliler and Tax Receiver C. A. Steed have not been opposed In nearly twenty years. AUGUSTA AND SAVANNAH BANKS TO CONSOLIDATE AUGUST, GA.. June 21. The Citi zens and Southern bank of Savannah, recent purchasers of a controlling in- I terest in five National bank of Augusta, I will be consolidated with the Augusta I bank under the title of the Citizens i and Southern bank of Savannah and I Augusta. The Augusta institution will! be a national bank no longer. The com. ' bined capital stock will be $1,000,000, I and the surplus $1,000,000, while the de- j posits are already more than $7,000,000. FIRE MASTERS FAIL TO AGREE: BIDS REJECTED Atlanta's fire alarm problem is back at the starting point, after several in effectual attempts to award contracts for a new system or an extension of the old. The board of fire masters held a called meeting to award the contract, but Fire Chief Cummings favored one system and City Electrician Turner an-| other, and after a heated argument I the board adjourned with all bids re jected and new ones called for. An other meeting v ill be called within a week two. when the rival compa nies will submit new bids ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1912. T. R BLOCKS STEAM ROLLER; ALL NOMINATIONS HELD UP I UNCLE TRUSTY! I X Copyright, 1912. by International News Service. -|. X X* T '■' r _■* ft"' t :: us*. I ! ■i I i •? \ X i _ s ffr (flO n r-- —11 I I / 1 ? t .A / \ * I SUnhwi 1) Wmf I J; J frl.— Ww zJlx T “ 1 hat fight between William and Theodore ;s getting really dangerous! I think 111 keep X £ at a safe distance with this String of dark horses—one of them may be wanted! I've also sent T 3- for an ambulance to take the injured either to Washington or Oyster Bay. as the rase may be! I'm glad I’ve got the Republican platform all finished!” X V ••«,••*•••« s • ♦ • T CUBA SEETHING: RAGE fflß NUR I HAVANA, June 21.—Race hatred throughout Cuba is growing in bitter ness and fear increases daily that con ditions have reached such a pass that a general race "ar can not be avert ed. Loyal newspapers in this city charge that M. Henri Bryois. the French con sul at Santiago de Cuba, has been se cretly giving help to the rebels and that it was he who inspired the procla mation issued by General Antomarchi. the negro insurgent leader, setting a time limit when all whites should be put to the sword. President Gomez may tall for the re tirement of the French consul within a few days. Rebel leaders are inflaming their ne gro soldiers against the whites by sto ries of cruelties inflicted. Many of the' negroes can not read and therefore rely for their information upon verbal ad vice. Utilizing this opportunity, the leaders are reporting terrible massa cres by Cuban soldiers to stir the ne groes to frenzy. WOHLWENDER, SLADE AND SWIFT RUN IN MUSCOGEE COLUMBUS. GA., June 21.—Repre sentatives Ed Wohlwetider and J. J. Slade have announced as candidates to succeed themselves in the lower house of the Georgia general assembly from Muscogee county. Muscogee county having been given another representative under the new apportionment. H. H. Swift, a young attorney of this city, has announced as a candidate for that position. No opposition has arisen to tlrrse candi dates 4V 4 DEAD, 2 WOUNDED IN TEXAS FEUD:GIRL SLAYS, THEN IS SHOT SHERMAN, TEXAS. June 21.-in a feud battle near here yesterday four person® were killed and two wounded. Before she was slain. Miss Georgia Sharp killed one man and wounded an other man and his wife. The Sharp family, consisting of Miss Georgia Sharp, her father. L. W. Sharp, and her brother. Walter, were passing the home of old foes the Waldrop fam ily, when both factions began firing. Henry Waldrop killed Walter Sharp and his father. As they fell Miss Geor gia Sharp seized her father’s smoking magazine rifle and took up the battle. She killed Russell Waldrop, then shot his parents. F’rone on the ground, Henry Waldrop returned the fii«, and shot Miss Sharp She died almost in stantly. “bunny’- McFarland, wife SLAYER. GETS NEW TRIAL TRENTON. N. J.. June 21. —The court of errors and appeals has granted a new trial in the. ease of Allison M. McFarland, who was convicted In Newark of hiving caused the death of his wife by placing poison in a place where medicine was usually found. The trial was made sensational •by the in troduction of “bunny” letters that passed between McFarland and his ste nographer. CARS MUST BE SCREENED. JACKSON, MISS.. June 21.—The Mississippi railroad commission has is sued an order compelling ail railroads to screen cars in which passengers travel. Several of the roads complied with the ordet it® proposal more than a month ago and no protest is expected fi om any of the line® catering the state. THINK ELOPERS ARE HIDING HERE Detectives who are searching Atlanta today for some trace of Mrs. Grace Harmon Reames. the eloping society woman of Spartanburg, believe that they will be able td feiret out her hid ing place'if they can find the owner of the automobile in which she made the last part of her sensational flight from her husband’s home. These detectives have been told that when Mrs. Reames took her child and ran away from Dr. J. W. Reames, her husband, with a man believed to be J. W. Rogers, a Greenwood hotel clerk, she first took a train for Atlanta Then, becoming fearful of further pursuit, she left the cars fit a point out side this city, entered an automobile owned by an acquaintance and thus succeeded in reaching some hiding place In Atlanta while detectives searched for her on tire trains Offers Reward of $25. Dr. R.eames say® ho has offered the reward of $25 for the finding of his wife, and son only because he wants to ob tain the custody of five-year-old Or lando Reamer, from whom he has heard no word since the elopement of the so ciety woman caused a sensation nearly a year ago. Hts offer of reward came to the Atlanta police tn this message from Constable J W Becknell. of Spartanburg: Mrs. Reames and Orlando Reames believed to be in Atlanta: $25 reward for information as to either. The searchers have been given to understand that Dr. Reamer also wil! pay for information as to the where abouts of Rogers. He is being aided in his search for the child by S. Rogers, a brother of the man who is believed to have run away with Mrs. Reamer. Rigers believes hi® brother now is known as Rogers McCashlin. Fight in Credentials Committee Halts Convention and Final Adjournment May Not Come Before Tuesday Af ternoon—Taft Men, Fearing a Bolt, Play Waiting Game. Roosevelt Leoders to Offer Passive Resistance, and Then Bolt if Nomination Is Made by Use of “Stolen” Votes, Holding Convention of “Progressives” Some Time in August. CHICAGO, June 21.—Congressman G. R. Malby, of New York, a member of the credentials committee, announced at 9:35 a. m. that the committee would be unable to report before Monday, and that the nominations would necessarily be delayed until next Wednesday. , COLISEUM, CHICAGO. -lune 21.—The G. O. was checked for the time being by the situation which Roosevelt created in his announcement of a willingness to head a third par ty if fraud is allowed to stand in the present convention. .The fourth day's session of the convention was called to order by Chairman Root shortly after 11 o'clock today, but there was every prosp.ect that it would adjourn shortly without action, the report of the credentials committee, which had been in session all night, not being ready. This sifted the prearranged program so that it wil] hardly be possible for nominations for president to he in order before Mondav. It was said that the delay was deliberately planned by the Taft men. who. not ready for Roose velt's announced stand, now see lhe necessity of finding a third man who wil) swing the support of the progressive element of the party and thus cut off Roosevelt from the support he has had. Tile leaders have not been successful thus far in finding the right man. and are fighting for time. To give them this time, ii is charged, the gate has been opened to the contestants in the credentials committee, almost unlim ited time being given in the contests, thus making it impossible for a report to be completed on schedule time and making it necessary to delay the work of the convention so that Sunday ad journment will come before the nom ination stage lias been reached. This extra day will be advantageous to the searching antl-Roosevelt men. Roosevelt Men In Active Revolt. Followers of Theodore Roosevelt are in active revolt against him, and to day there was a marked shift in the convention program of the ex-presi dent Though beaten, he will keep up the fight, however. This outline of hi.® plan.® was given today by one of the leaders still loyal to Roosevelt: "If the convention purges its roll of the tainted delegates, then there will be no 'bolt.’ no matter who the nomi nee may be. "If the convention indorses the ac tion taken by the Republican national com mittee. the Roosevelt leaders will notify the convention that they refuse to rec ognize its legality and will decline to be bound by any action the convention may take. "There will be no actual bolt, al though there is a possibility that some far Western states may leave the hall. "A plan of ‘passive resistance'' will be followed by many Roosevelt delegates. They will not vote on motions connect ed with tiie organization and work of the conventin. Progressives Plan Convention in August. “Unless a change in plans Is made, Colonel Roosevelt's name will be placed in nomination. “If a candidate should be nominated with fraudulent delegates participating, the Roosevelt delegates will take steps to call a convention in Chicago during the first week in August, to |which all progressives will be invited, and it is expected Colonel Roosevelt will be nominated for the presidency. "Woodrow Wilson Is mentioned as the colonel's running mate.” It was the revolt of his followers against the colonel’s order to bolt that caused a sudden shift in his plans. From that shift developed the decision to form a third party. Colonel Roosevelt had originally hoped to take over enough delegates to claim to be the "regular" Republican nominee. When hit men refused to bolt, however, this tope "as given up. 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE Y „ NO Committee at Work All Night CHICAGO. June 21.—The steam roll ei in the committee on credentials con tinued on its way today, after a long and successful trip last night and yes terday afternoon. The work of the national committee in seating Taft delegates, including all those from Georgia, has been approved as far as taken up. It was announced this morning that the committee would bo unable to make its report before Mon day. The Taft steam roller showed no halt after the committee convened at 2:41 o'clock yesterday. During the aft ernoon and last night 26 Taft delegates were seated in Alabama. Arkansas. Ari zona, Florida and Georgia at large. Fol-, lowing this during the early morning# the following results were tallied on the Taft side of the column: Georgia, 12 districts. 24 delegates. California. Fourth district. 2 delegate-. Indiana at large, 4 delegates. Indiana, Thirteenth district. 2 delegates. Ken tucky. Seventh district. 2 delegates. Georgia-at-Large Vote Unanimous. The only case where there unanimity was in the four delegates at-large in Georgia. The Roosevelt ca r was not considered strong even by th anti-Taft people. The roll call to sod the Taft deh gales-at-large sttfod II to o. The 24 district delegates wcr seated for Taft on a viva voce voir “We gave up out plan of expediting Illis matter by dropping some of the vases." sdd Committeeman Hugh T. Halbert, of Minnesota, -this morning, "because of the tactics of tn Taft crowd. In the California case w : fought to the last ditch, but no w.c ridden down. In that case it was a matter, of 77,000 people as against the national committee. The national e mi mittee overrode the primary law of the state and made legislation for tin citi zens of California. President Taft ac quiesced in that law and he sbou I now be bound by it. "This committee and convention Cma the greatest, crisis in the history of an. committee or convention, especially in the California case, where, even will' .77.000 people, we could not seat our delegates." The California case wtt« taken up about 2 o’clock this morning, tn this case the Fourth district alone was in contest. The primary in California In that district gave Colonel Roosevelt a big majority. The Taft people con tested this ease on ate chnicality, alleg ing the election of delegates in the pri mary was a violation of the call of the national committee The vote on a motion before the credentials com mittee to seat the Roosevelt delegates was lost by 28 nays to 16 yeas The Taft delegates were seated by a viva voce vote. Steam Roller Work Approved The next case taken up was the four delegates-at-large in Indiana. Tljese are Harry S. New. Charles W. Fair banks. James E. Watson, the floor load - er foi Taft in the convention, and Jo seph D. Oliver. After a bitter fight the steam roller downed Albert J. Bev eridge. Fred K. and the two othei Roosevelt delegates from Indiana